2013-03-09, 09:16 AM
MariaColette Wrote:I really don't see how? Asking for a more equal standing in gaming makes things fair for both sides instead of catering to just one side of the audience, as the industry has been mainly catering to males for decades. Now that it's shown that females play video games too, they need to be keeping that in mind and not have most games have useless, distressed and/or oversexualized females.
Asking to see a female protagonist take on the same role as a male protagonist more often isn't hard. Mass Effect has the choice to do one or the other and it's become very popular because of that option, as well as having a great even cast of male/female members.
It is not unreasonable to ask the industry to recognize the female clientele and cater for them more, not at all. It is however unreasonable to start making every game free from any sexual tension, stereotypes and the simple biological difference. That is not a construction even if many gender researchers (Yvonne Hirdman and R. W. Conell to mention some) likes to pretend so.
We do not need boob queens or helpless damsells in every instance of a game where a female is involved, but they certainly have a right to exist. And by the heavens, any jrpg player can testify that the male protagonists almost always leave much to desire when it comes to what constitutes the stereotype of the real man.